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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:03:34AM -0500, Mark Dominus wrote: > I am reminded here of R.W. Floyd's remark that premature optimization > is the root of all evil. Bernstein's take on it (which I found after > writing this message) can be found here: I thought this was by Tony Hoare, often quoted by Knuth. http://www.cookcomputing.com/blog/archives/000084.html But note how consistent Wikipedia is on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Floyd More on Hoare: http://research.microsoft.com/~thoare/ http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/people/tony.hoare.html Anyone know a more authoritative source? -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B A cool book of games, highly worth checking out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931686963/purple-20
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